It’s not just a matter of translating the dialogue exactly and simply doing a voiceover. That love is often a necessity because dubbing is not simple.
They have a deep love for the material and want to put their all into it. For the most part dubs are now extremely faithful to their original source material in part because many people working in the industry now grew up on anime and English dubs.
Thankfully, nobody needs to be a snob anymore as over the past 20 years a dubbing renaissance has taken place. I turned into a snob about it, looking down my nose at “casuals” who’d only watch a show if it was dubbed.īut being a snob is no fun. I couldn’t understand why anyone could watch a dub when a subtitled version was readily available. Watching shows I’d originally seen dubbed on TV was a totally different experience when watching the subtitled version. I enjoyed them a lot but as I got deeper into the anime scene and started collecting DVD’s I grew to prefer the subtitled versions because they were uncut. I grew up in the ‘90s and was first exposed to anime like Pokémon, Digimon, and Cardcaptors through Kids WB and Fox Kids. An early dub of Captain Harlock featured the usually stoic hero cracking jokes and badly mixed audio to the point it was near impossible to understand the more comedic dub. Gatchaman was turned into Battle of the Planets and added a character that never existed in the original version. Names, characterization, and whole episodes would be changed. Many of the earliest dubs tossed out any notion of following the Japanese script in order to “Americanize” for western audiences. While to some this is merely a personal preference, the debate between the two camps can get extremely heated especially on the side of “sub purists.” To them, the only true way to experience anime is how it was “originally intended.” That if you’re watching the English dub you’re “lazy” or aren’t getting the “true experience.”įor a chunk of the earliest anime brought over to America, this was true. Others prefer watching the original Japanese audio with the aid of English subtitles. Some prefer watching anime with an English dub. The argument has been ongoing ever since anime first started gaining a large audience outside of Japan. If you venture into any part of the anime community, eventually you’ll come across a debate that has raged for decades.
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